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Een vs Eyen - What's the difference?

een | eyen |

As a numeral een

is one.

As a noun eyen is

(dialectal|or|obsolete).

een

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)
  • (Scotland, Northern England, and, archaic)
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    Etymology 2

    From a contraction of even.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (dialectal, Northern England) even.
    • een seea

    Etymology 3

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic, or, dialectal, Scotland) evening.

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    eyen

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (head)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) English plurals
  • :* So mote I brouke wel myne eyen tweye, Saue ye I herde neuere man so synge. — Chaucer, 1390
  • :* While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen .'' — Spenser, ''The Fairie Queen
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1897
    • , year_published=2005 , author=William Morris , title=The Water of the Wondrous Isles , chapter=Chapter VII. Birdalone Hath an Adventure in the Wood , url= , genre=Fantasy , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=But well are thine eyen set in thy head, wide apart, well opened, ...}}

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